FEDERAL WAY, Wash. Newt Gingrich has been hitting Obamas energy speech since the president delivered it Thursday, calling the speech funny enough to be on SNL and something worthy of Leno or Letterman.

Gingrichs biggest talking point about Obamas speech attacks the president for his embrace of investments in biofuels such as those made from algae.

He is referring to a point in Obamas speech when the president said, Were making new investments in the development of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel thats actually made from a plant-like substance known as algae.

Believe it or not, we could replace up to 17% of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America, Obama said.

On Thursday night, Gingrich mocked the presidents speech in front of an Idaho crowd, by suggesting that he should take a bottle of algae with him and go around and we can have the Obama solution.

And maybe what we ought to do at Newt.org is we ought to get t-shirts that say You choose. Gingrich went on to suggest the slogans, You have Newt: Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less. You have Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.

Gingrich himself has taken a lot of flack on the campaign trail this year for presenting ideas that the other candidates have called grandiose and zany.

And maybe what we ought to do at Newt.org is we ought to get t-shirts that say You choose. Gingrich went on to suggest the slogans, You have Newt: Drill here, Drill Now, Pay Less. You have Obama: Have Algae, Pay More, Be Weird.

Same as Solyndra, all over again —some of the bigger outfits doing the research are big Obama contributors. They’re making the Navy buy this fuel, which is maybe 700% as expensive as the genuine stuff.

The US Navy is about to —or just did— do a whole exercise just off of this algae fuel.

Most of the outfits doing the research are just south of San Francisco, and in Silicon Valley.

In theory algae oil should work and does work in small very controlled environments. Trying to control the size of plants needed to make large scale algae oil work may take many years to engineer and perfect as to be commercially viable.

I saw a post the other day that told about how much phosphate would be required to run the huge algae farms needed to replace the oil we import into the U.S. We have to consider that algae is a plant and requires all the nutrients that plants do. I can’t find that article.

The bottom line is we would be taking phosphate away from our food production and throwing it into algae oil. If the phosphate is locked into the oil produced, we would be finding phosphate a rare commodity very quickly. If the phosphate is locked into just the algae cell, we could recover the phosphate through some kind of recovery technique. The cost of that technology I question and the time to develop it is another question.

calling the speech funny enough to be on SNL and something worthy of Leno or Letterman.

The ABC reporterette is fit to be tied to be forced to report it, but I heard Gingrich on Levin this evening and he was hitting the ball out of the park. It's just what the devil and Democrats can't stand: being laughed at. Gingrich was utterly convincing.

He has the ability to define 0bama in a single, withering phrase and reduce him to irrelevance. In this, only Sarah Palin is in a league with him.

Algae as an energy solution is laughable. Sounds like something that needs to be researched and marketed first. Not pushed by a Marxist onto the country.

I have faith one day many things that sound weird now will provide us our energy in the future. With that being said, it still is not a viable energy policy. Everytime I filled up my gas tank, the price per gallon has been more expensive. Obama’s energy policies are ill concieved, short-sighted and simply wrong for what we need now and in the future.

Just recycle a few million tons of bird feces, and extract
a lot of phosphate. Scrape them off of cars or statues in urban areas
and provide jobs for unemployed Occupy This slackers, and you kill
two turds with one stone. [\sarc]

Would you people like a good laugh? The reason why the algae can’t ever produce enough fuel to be industrially feasible is (drumroll please...) that there’s no way to give it enough CO2. Yes, there’s not way to produce enough CO2 to allow algae to replace fuel drilling. Is that funny or what.

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